Category: International Events

Title: Vancouver Writers Fest

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Description: The Vancouver Writers Fest turns reading into a community experience, bringing people together to share thoughts, explore ideas, and witness brilliant conversations. For the past 25 years, the Writers Fest has enriched imaginations and the culture of Vancouver and has touched and inspired thousands of lives by creating a forum for authors to connect with readers and by offering a vibrant exchange of ideas and conversation. The Festival is a celebration of story, told by authors, poets, spoken word performers, and graphic novelists.

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Start Date: October 16, 2012
End Date: October 21, 2012

Title: Luminate Poetry Slam

Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Description: Scotland has a vibrant poetry scene – from the Islands to the Borders and every conceivable place in between, with performance poetry gathering momentum among all age groups. Slams are a great opportunity to hear a range of performers who compete for a place in the finals. Hilarious, sentimental, bawdy, political, romantic, philosophical – there’s no way of knowing until the event starts. Take up the challenge or join the audience. Either way you’ll be hooked!

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Date: October 14, 2012

Title: Academy of American Poets – 2012 Poets Forum

Location: New York, New York, US
Description: The Academy of American Poets welcomes everyone to New York City for a series of events exploring the ever-changing landscape of contemporary poetry in America. The Forum will feature in-depth discussions with an array of distinguished poets, readings, lectures, publication parties, and a selection of poet-led literary walking tours throughout Manhattan.

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Start Date: October 18, 2012
End Date: October 20, 2012

Title: Festival International de la Poésie

Location: Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada
Description: The Festival International de la Poésie (English: International Festival of Poetry) is an annual poetry festival held in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada.

In the late ’70s, the idea of promoting a large-scale event around poetry hatched in the mind of the co-founder of the Écrits des Forges publishing house, Gaston Bellemare. He was saddened to see how much the media ignored poetry. After much reflection, he came to the unequivocal conclusion that someone had to create an event that would arouse the general public’s interest. People had to meet poets in everyday places.

In the fall of 1985, one year after the Fondation Les Forges Inc. was born, the International Poetry Festival was to forever change Trois-Rivières. Invited to the very first edition, Quebec’s great singer-songwriter Félix Leclerc declared Trois-Rivières to be “the Poetry Capital.” Eighty Quebec poets and 5,000 poetry fans came to first Poetry Festival!

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Start Date: September 28, 2012
End Date: October 7, 2012

Title: George Bowering and other BookThug writers read at Real Vancouver Writers’ Series

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Description: The Real Vancouver Writers’ Series is proud to announce their first event of the 2012 fall season: Real Vancouver BookThug. In the first of a series of collaborations with independent publishers they’re happy to showcase 5 amazing local writers who have published with one of the finest publishing houses in Canada. The writers are George Bowering, Jake Kennedy, Andrew McEwan, John Francis Hughes and Meredith Quartermain.

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Date: September 27, 2012

Title: Victoria Writers Festival

Location: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Description: A literary bash featuring thoughtful, fun, important, inspiring, and invigorating voices on beauty, history, the wild, the true, and human “progress”. Some of the nervy poets, novelists and essayists who will challenge and sweeten our understanding of the worlds include Jan Zwicky, Robert Bringhurst, Esi Edugyan and many more.

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Start Date: October 12, 2012
End Date: October 13, 2012

Title: Patti Smith talks with Paul Muldoon at the New Yorker Festival

Location: New York, New York, US
Description: Described as the “Lollapalooza for the urban intelligentsia” (Gawker), the New Yorker Festival features a plethora of arts delights that includes poet Paul Muldoon interviewing legendary musician and songwriter Patti Smith.

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Date: October 6, 2012

Title: Margaret Atwood, Jennifer Egan, and George Saunders talk Utopia/Dystopia at the New Yorker Festival

Location: New York, New York, US
Description: Described as the “Lollapalooza for the urban intelligentsia” (Gawker), the New Yorker Festival features a plethora of arts delights that includes a discussion of Utopia/Dystopia with Margaret Atwood, Jennifer Egan, and George Saunders.

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Date: October 5, 2012

Title: New Yorker Festival

Location: New York, New York, US
Description: Described as the “Lollapalooza for the urban intelligentsia” (Gawker), the New Yorker Festival overflows with readings, panels, performances and more by contemporary artists spanning all of the disciplines … and crossing disciplines to spark the most interesting conversations and reactions.

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Start Date: October 5, 2012
End Date: October 7, 2012

Title: Louder Than a Bomb – screening of film about youth poetry slam

Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Description: Film synopsis: Every year, more than six hundred teenagers from over sixty Chicago area schools gather for the world’s largest youth poetry slam, a competition known as “Louder Than a Bomb”. Founded in 2001, Louder Than a Bomb is the only event of its kind in the country—a youth poetry sslam built from the beginning around teams.

The film will be screened at Selwyn House School, 95 Cote St. Antoine Road, Westmount. A question-and-answer session (with co-producer Greg Jacobs) will follow the screening.

Tickets ($10 each) are available at:
Livres Babar (46 St. Anne St., Pointe Claire – Phone: 514-694-0380)
Babar en ville (1235 Greene Avenue, Westmount – Phone: 514-931-0606)

For more details and additional ticket information, contact Carol-Ann Hoyte (email: kidlitfan1972@yahoo.ca, phone: 514-738-3413).

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Date: October 17, 2012